FOI request (FOIR-618083198)

Section 106

Requested Tue 28 May 2024
Responded Fri 07 June 2024

1. How much money received via Section 106 agreements is currently held, unspent, by the local planning authority?

2. How much of this figure (1) is allocated for:

a. affordable housing provision,

b. highways/roads,

c. schools and education contributions,

d. social infrastructure (for example, recreation, open spaces, play areas),

e. health and social care services,

f. unallocated?

3. How much of this figure (1) was received:

a. in the 2023/24 or 2024/25 financial years,

b. between the 2019/20 and 2022/23 financial years (inclusive),

c. in the 2018/19 financial year or earlier?

4. How much money received via Section 106 agreements has been returned to the developer within the last ten years (2013/14 financial year onwards), due to it not being spent in the required time frame? If the reason for returning money to the developer has not been recorded, please just put here the total amount of Section 106 money that has been returned to developers for any reason.

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Response

1. Please refer to appendix A and B of the latest Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) covering 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023 published on our website at:

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/content/planning/pdfs/AnnualInfrastructureFundingStatement2022-23

The report covering 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024 is not yet prepared and will be published in December 2024.

2a. Please refer to appendix B of IFS detailed in (1).

2b. This is an East Sussex County Council requirements and their IFS should be referred to at:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/planning/development-contributions/infrastructure-funding-statement

2c. This is an East Sussex County Council requirements and their IFS should be referred to at:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/planning/development-contributions/infrastructure-funding-statement

2d. Refer to Appendix A as above.

2e. This is an East Sussex County Council requirements and their IFS should be referred to at:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/planning/development-contributions/infrastructure-funding-statement

2f. refer to table F on page 10 of the IFS mentioned in (1).

3a. Zero - The IFS covering 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024 is not yet prepared and will be published in December 2024. The IFS covering 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025 will be published in December 2025.

3b. £168,627.61

3c. Everything else

4. Zero